Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> writes: > 2011/9/27 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr>: >> I have a question concerning the upstream tarball: it contains binary >> MEX files which must have been compiled with MATLAB by the upstream >> maintainer (this affects the current 2.4.1 tarball and the new 2.4.4 >> tarball). >> >> I am wondering if this is DFSG/policy-compliant, or if we need to >> repackage the upstream tarball without these binary blobs. > > It's not a DFSG violation. The source is there, and if you have > Matlab, you can recompile them and modify them. Up to you to repackage > the source tarball, but I don't see a reason to do so if it's more > trouble. Ok, thanks for the clarification. I will then go ahead with the pristine tarball. -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics at CEPREMAP & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-49-90 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
Attachment:
pgpyG8huySBDQ.pgp
Description: PGP signature